“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.” — Wally Lamb Quote

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”

“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had been together, he said, Gary’s mother had accepted him as her son’s lover, had given them her blessing. Then, at the funeral, she’d barely acknowledged him. Later, when she drove to the house to retrieve some personal things, she’d hunted through her son’s drawers with plastic bags twist-tied around her wrists.”